Hello and do any of the members here that are mechanics scrap a lot of stuff? At my work, we scrap a ton and about 5 times we take whole truckloads to the scrap man. I found it odd that when I got my brake shoes for the honda there was a $10 core on the old shoes. Anyways, I scrap some aluminum and such. Doing side work also helps. Even batterys can get you $5 or so.
any guys here scrap a lot?
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I think rotors would be the largest scrap item besides tires. Does anyone take tires for free? I see they make various kinds of mulch for landscaping from old tires (I assume). What a great business, get paid for your raw materials and for your finished product. Marketing genius.
Donald, the guys that take our old tires, they take them to be used as "on site fuel" for places, and they check some of them, and re sell them cheap I hear. Lately I have a oil/fuel filter crusher and I take our old filters at work. There is a yard near my dads house that pays like 88 cents at the present for tinny metal they call it. I wait till I have a truck load full of 5gal plastic buckets then go there.
we scrap the old copper and brass radiater cores. I take in about 3500lbs of them 2x a year
Yeah, summer is pretty bad for us on a/c stuff and that sort. I replaced a friends 02' intrepid radiator. They dont make radiators to last anymore. His rad was cracked on the plastic top part. He jb welded it, didnt last 2 days.
Brake shoes used to carry core deposits,but largely now they source new irons from China or seek out junkyard irons and dont rely on core deposits for their supply of old steel.The reman industry is widely considered a "green" industry,but when one stops and thinks of the wasted transportation costs and burocracy of having to set up a system for collecting old,greasy,rusty,asbestos/hazardous laden cores and trucking it from your local auto parts stores to rebuilder locations....its not worth it.
I take all my old scrap/stuff (old car parts, the occasional bad appliance, etc...) to my neighbor's business (a NAPA Auto care center).
A scrap guy picks it up there. I don't have the time, and I don't want the hassle, but if that scrap guy can benefit, I am happy to have him take care of it...
A scrap guy picks it up there. I don't have the time, and I don't want the hassle, but if that scrap guy can benefit, I am happy to have him take care of it...
I was thinking of getting an old Ford Ranger as a second car to collect metal waste.
Good money to be had in it if you find a good route without too much competition.
I don't want to get into a tire iron fight with an old time scrapper over a pile of copper pipe.
Good money to be had in it if you find a good route without too much competition.
I don't want to get into a tire iron fight with an old time scrapper over a pile of copper pipe.
We have drums out back at work for scrap - it's supposed to be sorted, but it ends up all being tossed in any bin. Scrap money is workshop money - it buys beer.
All of Napa's brake shoes still have a core charge.
Didnt know NAPA'S shoes still had a core. My brake shoes are duralast shoes with $10 core.
I scrap my own stuff after renovations or whatnot, I used to do cans until the price dropped and it wasn't worth the hassle.
if I have just a little bit of stuff I'll let my Dad have it, he has the time to collect the stuff.
there are a few 'professional' scrappers in my neighborhood, they really help lighten the load on the sanitation workers.
if I have just a little bit of stuff I'll let my Dad have it, he has the time to collect the stuff.
there are a few 'professional' scrappers in my neighborhood, they really help lighten the load on the sanitation workers.
I am fortunate to have a large scrap metal bin at work - so EVERYTHING I can (besides beer bottle caps
) is recycled. Brake pads, rads, control arms, oil filters, old light fixtures etc.
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I recycle all steel. We have a bin at work that generates a ton or two every month. A lot of people bring scrap from home. I even bring bottle caps.
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